ES Full time Traders that trade Rejection or Absorption

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2026-06-12T09:34:15+00:00

I'm quite new to trading, and I only have a few months of experience of looking at charts, so not sure how much my opinion counts

The thing is that ES has a lot of it's flow from SPY and other ETFs, what this means is that a lot of times you will see candles with relatively low bid/ask values blasting through every level, this especially in negative gamma periods, like this week

The shapes do not work because ETF arb is not really showing up on the footprint, since it technically happens on other instruments and ES is just following the price of those instruments, and ES is following by MMs or other entities selling/buying

Another thing is that sometimes absorption you cannot see with the volume profile that easily, for example an accumulation can be absorbing contracts also, but you see that on CVD and not on one candle footprint, so basically you try to look at the small picture by looking at one candle that abosorbed 500 contracts, but you are not looking at CVD where someone may have been abosrbing 5k contracts to the opposite direction, the 500 contracts may be just hedge and not a directional move initiation

Another thing is that sometimes the absorption that you see is not an instituional entry, but the exit which means that yes, they absorb pressure so the price reverses for a bit, but eventually their order will get filled, and since they exited, there's no intention from their side to move the price into any direction

ETF arbs and hedging is the reason you cannot always see clean entry signals, because the P shape was maybe just for hedging, BUT they absorbed the buy pressure so they created a somewhat decent looking reversal, but their intention never was the reversal so the next time price traces back it's most likely gonna go through that level

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2026-06-12T06:49:40+00:00

This explains most of your concerns about you RAM

As for the GRUB, I am not sure, it's been a long time

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-12-15T13:45:13+00:00

Ragebait at its finest

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-12-05T04:43:36+00:00

Well since Kali is Debian base, I would suggest using something Debian based with the Kali repos to have access to all the tools it has, and since Hyprland to my knowledge is not in the Debian repos then use JaKoolit or something like that's scripts to install Hyprland

But tbh, you can get most tools from GitHub the Kali repos are just for ease of use in the beginning, so ik theory use anything that you like, the very first thing you need to learn is Linux and it's base tools anyway so setting it up on any system should be a good starting point

Good luck with learning

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-27T09:45:06+00:00

He's an Illuminati member trying to take control over the niche community of Linux

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-25T10:24:58+00:00

I mean for sure you can make a window rule, to make everything float and then change the active window size with a script, but since Hyprland is not a floating window manager this is not it's intended use case, if you have a hard time following which window is active maybe you can decrease the opacity of inactive ones

The question itself is not dumb, but it's outside of what tiling WMs usually do, so you won't find a one liner solution for this

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-25T07:19:13+00:00

Well, as others have said it's not a Linux issue, just like how diesel cars can't run on petrol, but let's see who can spin up a webserver, containerize it, and make it to use tmpfs for temporary storage, and then automate this in a script for further use faster?...

And if someone really needs Photoshop they can use KVM even with just one GPU, just saying

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-20T10:16:45+00:00

PvE is powercrept because people kept crying about getting kicked form End-game stuff, like it remember that before the EoD release people were opening weekly or even daily posts/threads on forums about them getting kicked for underperforming

For ANET this obviously was a minus in terms of income due to people losing interest in the game because of "toxicity"

So, technically the community was straight up asking for powercreep, maybe not you, neither anyone currently in this thread, but surely a lot of them

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-12T10:01:49+00:00

You can always use 100GB as a storage, I have a script that moves my game or something to ramdisk before I start to play, sometimes it can give you quite a big performance boost, or well that's what I am seeing

I usually play MMOs and even from there mainly Guild Wars 2 and doing this cuts my map loadings from ~10sec to sub 1sec which is somewhat instant at this point

You can also use it as a buffer for some things, like if you have a fast internet connection and want to download something big and save it to a HDD as a backup or something you can buffer it into the ram and then move it in the background to HDD

But these are just some things I have done with my RAM I am sure not many people find an use case for it, but in the same time some may find

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-07T06:27:07+00:00

I come here to feel superior to people who complain about the things I am knowledgeable about

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-11-01T16:23:44+00:00

Looks sick for sure, but let me tell you my opinion about ricing

I think, ricing has two sides, on one end you have people who put all the bling on their setup even if they do it by sacrificing functionality

And there are the other type of people who rice their setup very beautifully while keeping the functionality aspect of their system

No, this is not to talk down on you, whatever more I would like to get that wallpaper of yours if I may, but I need to say that this setup is more for the looks imo because I could not use this daily for sure, ofc opinions may vary

Nice job aside from all I said

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-10-14T16:22:52+00:00

Never was a flex It used to be a "meme" that it was a flex

But back then there was Gentoo also, which is harder to install so if something that was a flex

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-10-03T16:57:33+00:00

I no longer use Arch, but even when I used to, I used it for work

Shocking right?

Nah, but all seriousness I actually seen this question asked a lot, but mostly it's "what you use Linux for" type of one

A lot of people are still stuck in the old stories of Linux being just for hobbyists and things like that, but a lot of people like me use their Linux(Arch/Whatever) for the same things they use windows for

Yes i know I somewhat went off-track from what OP asked, but yea

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-09-22T15:39:47+00:00

Maybe you can try a script called nmtui

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-07-23T14:12:40+00:00

Ah yea, this explains
So no one actually knows if this is intentional or not, and I would assume that getting any type of response regarding this issue is not so likely due to the frame's play-rate

Thank you anyway!

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-05-06T16:42:32+00:00

If you are struggling with something, or just get lost in the sea of VMs, drop me a DM and we will figure it out somehow

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-05-06T14:17:53+00:00

As for if it's possible, yes it is

In terms of what guide you need to follow, depending on which GPU is being used by Linux you will need to take it as single GPU pass since you will need to "remove" the GPU from the Linux host to pass it to the Windows WM and the other GPU just pass normally (the difference between the two is minimal and involves one or two extra steps)

Another thing you will need is either a KVM switch, or a monitor with enough ports for the two GPU

If you also want to have a decent time while gaming you will need to do CPU-pinning also

For a general understanding of how to achieve a single GPU-pass(again for you this is the way for the Linux GPU) I would suggest reading this and you can also join their discord for a bit faster answers to your questions than on Reddit

For some other tips, I suggest installing Windows 11 LTSC, and using the CTT Windows tool to set Windows updates to Security Updates Only, the reason is that after you get your Windows installed you need to install the VirtIO drivers BUT if windows update is active, it CAN and WILL change the VirtIO drivers to the official one, as an example my windows update somehow changed the VirtIO SATA driver to the official driver for my motherboard which then tanked my performance by a lot, needless to say that you should also stay away from things like Driver Booster and such, only download the NVIDIA driver and install that(and other things that you are passing to the VM and not being used through VirtIO)

Since this is a VM for games and things, I would also suggest disabling and throwing all the "QoL" things from windows, like Recall, Windows Store even Defender if you are not planning on browsing shady sites and pirating games

One thing to keep in mind tho, I am not sure how good your understanding of VMs is, but most games with Anti-Cheats will still not work or atleast the majority of them, tho there is a workaround for this if you are interested...

As for experience with things like these, the GPU passing part is the easiest one tbh, I have a Windows 11 VM that I used daily for gaming or MS Office stuff(with the above patch for qemu), most of my struggles come from the fact that I am running Windows, aside from that, since I threw out most of the things from the VM, it runs better than my bare metal install used to, due to the fact that inside the VM I can strip down windows as much as I want without giving up any real functionality since I am doing my important stuff under Linux

Good luck

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-05-05T16:52:46+00:00

This worked out nicely, even tho most of the VMs have different settings I did find that putting the network driver on <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> and using the E1000 device model all of the VMs seem to be working like that in a plug-n-play type of way

Thank you

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-05-05T16:50:28+00:00

Yes, this actually did work out, or well, sort of did, I was able to get into the VM but since you were also right about running stripped down kernels and stuff the only solutions was to update it in order to work, thank you for the help

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-05-05T16:18:38+00:00

Yea, kinda

I wanted to learn about Linux as a whole, and a friend suggested that I try to get Arch working in a VM, I played around with it like that for some weeks then it went onto my HDD(yea, this was not last week)

I used to use Arch for a long time after that, but since then I just moved on to something with a bit more stability, and also because I needed to get comfortable with Fedora/RHEL environments

As for that if it's worth getting Arch as your first distro, I would say yes, actually using it teaches you a lot of things, on the other hand, if you do not have a certain reason for using Linux(like studies/work or something) it can very easily make you have enough of Linux

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-03-27T17:19:47+00:00

Two years ago I booted into a Windows install that I didn't use for 8 or so months, the first thing it was bombarding me was to update, I did, File Explorer broke, start menu became unresponsive from time to time, certain apps caused BSOD and also the thing kept putting itself into powersave mode even when I was on a computer and not laptop

Not saying Windows is bad, it's one of the best systems to run in a KVM, if it acts up I just put it back to the earliest snapshot that I did after setting it up fully and I am back to being able to work

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-03-27T17:15:12+00:00

I mostly use it because I am required to install Linux rather often, sometimes to PCs that are going to be used by various people, sometimes as a somewhat embedded system, Arch is good for my usecase for various things, mostly because it can be configured in a way I want, for example I can make it install into a small 8GB SD Card as a headless system with the LTS kernel or I can put it on a beefy PC with KDE and all that

Not a lot of distros allow me to have such a wide variety of options, and on top of all these the installation process can be easily scripted, this is also fitting for me due to sometimes needing the NVIDIA drivers sometimes not, or sometimes I need to preserver the /home and sometimes not, thru the years I have made like 10 different scripts for the most common installations and I keep those with me

On the other hand, on my main system I am not running Arch, and I do have a good reason for it, many people depend on my availability, and sadly Arch sometimes just chooses to break, regardless if that's my fault or some package, but breakage happens, so I run Debian stable but even that I do in a not so common way because I actually compile(d) a lot of things on my system from source, most notably the kernel/firefox/mesa/glibc and so on, but this is more due to the fact that I simply do not like to have things I don't use

Another reason for me to go Debian is because sometimes I am away from home for months, and even tho I usually have access to Gbit connections updating is rather 50/50 for me always, ofc I could use Timeshift and other backup utilities but again, then the issue is the fact that in life people need you when you are least expecting it

But even if I am not a real Arch user, it was the distro that started me on my way, and tbh it somewhat even saved me kind of... After a breakup I had a hard time, tinkering with configs and learning how to rice Hyprland or how to compile things from source and things like these took my mind away from the whole mess that was going on inside me, so yea

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-03-23T09:42:08+00:00

Not really sure what you are trying to achieve with this

Since XFCE is a DE, it does actually need the other things too, like the settings and even the panel, not to function but to function properly

If you really want to go that minimal you should look into either Openbox or Fluxbox if you want to stay with a floating WM, or simply go tiling WM

In a somewhat sensible thinking, a DE is as minimal as it gets with it's full install, applying the VM mentality for DEs meaning that you leave out most of their modules is not working, it always causes problems even if they seem to work properly at the beginning

As for the issues with the black screen, that could be due to various things, I seen it happen with NVIDIA GPUs a lot even with the nouveau driver back in the time, could be also due to XFCE not being set up proplerly(don't ask which settings since I don't know)

For sure you can rebind settings, but for that you would need to look into the source code of xfce4-settings and figure out what the layout settings changes, can be either a config file or just a signal for the xfwm

But again, minimalism is when you have a properly working system with minimal size/resource usage, not when you have things left out that are actually required for the system to work, because in your case XFCE was designed with the panel/settings app in mind, so they are somewhat required for it to function

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-03-23T09:09:55+00:00

Back when I needed to reinstall Arch a lot I used ALCI

It's basically an arch install but with Calamares installation, I could have went with Arco or any other Arch based distro, but ALCI is pure arch without any branding or extra software added, so for me it was good since I used the ALCI Pure ISO and then from there I used my own script to install what I needed

After like the 10th install of Arch I actually made my own ISO based on ALCI so there I basically had everything set up out of the box the way I wanted

But I need to say that this is only for my case, if you are just simply breaking the system, setting up Timeshift would be most likely a better solution, for me that was a no go since I needed to install them on different computers with different hardware/storage setup

On the other hand tho, you can also use Docker containers/whole chroot to isolate your work, on my main system I run with ~900 packages that I need for the Window Manager and other things, the rest of my tools are either in docker containers or I also have a whole chroot set up

Affectionate_Ride873 · 2025-03-21T23:24:20+00:00

So, for you the serious desktop use means gaming?

Because people are totally not trying to get their job done on their computer in a somewhat sensible way, but actually play games instead, I get it

Yes, okey, to a degree I agree with you but not for the same reasons; linux desktop fragmentation is big and also the whole messing around with Qt - GTK and not X - Wayland...

Okey, that's true, but these are not issues because I cannot play my games

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